13 Apr
2009
13 Apr
'09
9:54 p.m.
On 4/11/09 8:06 PM, "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
I just won an 820-II on eBay, but the seller lost the
external drive box
(hard disk + 8" floppy). Judging by the schematic, it should be very
straightforward to interface one of my floppy drives to it (I have a bunch
of Shugart, Seimens and Tandon units).
The hard drive I'm less sure about. Looks like a proprietary interface of
some sort. Can anyone tell me more about it?
Does anyone have a spare 820-II drive enclosure they'd like to part with?
Lastly, will Imagedisk support creation of a system disk on an 8" drive
attached to a Compaticard IV?
Steve
I have a spare unit that has inoperative drives you can have. It's
currently in storage, but I believe it has 2 of the 8" floppy drives
installed. I think you can substitute a Shugart SA-1000 10mb hard drive for
one of the floppy drives, but you'll need a SASI interface card too.
I'm currently in the process of archiving a large group of 820-II 8"
floppies with Imagedisk and it's going well, so I'm sure you'll be able to
go the other way and create a system disk with your compaticard. The
majority are DS/DD so I have a Shugart 851 interfaced to my PC.
Richard Lynch